Synopsis of lectures on diseases of the skin / by Robert John Garden.
- Garden, Robert John.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Synopsis of lectures on diseases of the skin / by Robert John Garden. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Sheet 8.] *5 FEIGNED SKIN DISEASES. Various skin diseases have been feigned, i.e., artificially produced. The practice is usually found amongst those liable, to military service in order to escape it; amongst prisoners to avoid work ; amongst malingerers to gain admission to a hospital; and amongst hysterical women to satisfy some morbid craving. There is usually no great difficulty in detecting the fraud if the skin be carefully examined, and due regard be had to the clinical charac- teristics of the diseases which are imitated. The following is a list of feigned diseases, with the means employed to produce them:— ( Oil with Assafcetida, rubbed in the Bromhidrosis -1 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ , ., . f Sulphate of lead, indigo and smoke Chromhidrosis -1 Uack and grease- Haemathidrosis f Blood of animals. Haemahidrosis [ Extr. of Liquorice. J Puncturing with a needle and then rub- Small-pox - - | bing in bay salt and gunpowcjen / Mustard applied by a camel hair brush. Erythema - - j Forcible tearing with the nails. Urticaria - - Nettle leaves, Jellyfish, Valerian. Erysipelas - - Blisters. Phlegmon and f animal ^ Abscess - - I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20385778_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
